1. Lojze Grozde was a Slovenian student who was murdered by Partisans during World War II.
15 Facts About Lojze Grozde
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Lojze Grozde's death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church.
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Lojze Grozde's stepfather chased Grozde away whenever he wanted to see his mother.
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Later, because Lojze Grozde was a good pupil, the stepfather became friendlier towards him, and so he remained at the house and his aunt took care of him.
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Lojze Grozde saw to his schooling and sent him to a school in Ljubljana, where she was working as a servant.
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Lojze Grozde stayed at the Marijanisce boarding school and attended the Classical Secondary School in Ljubljana.
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Lojze Grozde was a member of the Catholic Action religious movement and a member of the Marian Congregation of Slovene Divinity Students and Priests.
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Under these strained circumstances, Lojze Grozde became increasingly religious and was leaning towards the study of theology and the priesthood, but he was killed in the last year of his high school studies.
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Lojze Grozde decided to continue towards Mirna on foot, and on the way he rode in a cart.
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Lojze Grozde was taken to a nearby inn and interrogated, tortured, and killed in a forest near Mirna.
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On 23 February 1943 the fate of Lojze Grozde was partly revealed, indicating that he had been tortured.
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Lojze Grozde's body was taken to nearby Sentrupert, where a committee made a report.
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The body of Lojze Grozde was buried at the cemetery in Sentrupert because it was impossible to take it to his home parish of Trzisce under the difficult circumstances of those days.
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Lojze Grozde's remains were translated in 2011 to the Marian shrine at Zaplaz, where a special side altar was created on the right side of the church, decorated with a mosaic by Marko Ivan Rupnik.
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Relics of Lojze Grozde have been placed in the altar at St Joseph's Church in Celje, the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at Alojzij Sustar Elementary School in Ljubljana and many other churches in Slovenia.